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Tornado Warning 13, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 26, 1998, 6:19 PM CDT for Throckmorton County, Texas. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 26, 1998, 6:19 PM CDT (23:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 1998, 7:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Throckmorton County, TX
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Apr 26, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 183 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 177 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -328 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 676 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSJT 262319 RRA TORSJT TXC447-270005- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 619 PM CDT SUN APR 26 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... THROCKMORTON COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS * UNTIL 705 PM CDT * AT 618 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR AT MORAN INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF THROCKMORTON MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEA*R... WOODSON AT 630 PM CDT ABANDON MOBILE HOMES! GO IN A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD. PMC
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 2:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Nolan | 32 min |
| Apr 26, 2:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Runnels | 63 min |
| Apr 26, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman | 63 min |
| Apr 26, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Taylor | 47 min |
| Apr 26, 3:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Coleman, McCulloch | 45 min |
| Apr 26, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown | 59 min |
| Apr 26, 3:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Brown | 63 min |
| Apr 26, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman | 35 min |
| Apr 26, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Shackelford | 49 min |
| Apr 26, 4:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Shackelford | 46 min |
| Apr 26, 4:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Haskell | 61 min |
| Apr 26, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 61 min |
| Apr 26, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell | 20 min |
| Apr 26, 5:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Shackelford | 51 min |
| Apr 26, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher | 47 min |
| Apr 26, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | San Saba | 62 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.